Time to dial back personal nastiness in Question Period and House committees

But let's also not embark on a series of reforms that ignore the traditional partisan role of Parliament, how it evolved through history and how it works today

The winter-spring Parliamentary session that paused in mid-June for the summer break was remarkable for its intense partisanship, minimal progress on the government's legislative agenda and loud controversies over relatively minor issues that ultimately went nowhere. While some important bills we...

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